On Mon, 22 Jul 1996: Bill Lattimer wrote
>> if your Midget is stock, then a DCOE is WAY TOO much carb
>> for the engine. You'll have no power below 3000 rpm, it will
>> probably only do about 19MPG and will genrally give awfull
>> performance.
>
> I don't know that I completely agree with this, since no sizes are
> mentioned. With a 40 DCOE and the proper size chokes, a sidedraft can be
> a very streetable, responsive carb from off-idle to the top end - albeit
> with ~20% loss in gas milage. I have a 45 DCOE on a TWM manifold with
> 36MM chokes, and this works very, VERY well - it is MUCH more responsive
> than the stock SUs. Many of the bad experiences with Webers on the
> street are due to improper tuning; IMHO, setup with a rolling road dyno
> is required to make this work.
Hello,Bill.
I agree up to a point.
If the carb setting is good,it is very responsive
and more powerfull than ZS or SU (at least I feel so).
I love the weber carb. It's great.
But there are other consideration.
The weber has the defect point.
You mentioned ~20% loss in gas milage.
Generally speaking,the weber carb loss the gas
and setting is delicate(if you want to the best condition).
I feel I should mention that the engine vibration increase
and the parcolation(spelling?? A phenomena the gas boil in carb or fuel hose)
happen from engine heat.
Still more,(On the whole),1500 engine is not high speed rotation type.
The weber is suited to the high speed rotation.
So I feel that
if midget 1500 engine is stook,the weber carb is way too much for the engine
(Especially US type(low compression engine)).
My 79'midget has weber 40 dcoe and stage 3 tuning engine.
I made a great effort to set up.
Now I get a good setup.
Things are pretty good.
I enjoy my midget.
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